Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Secret List of Twitter Buyout Investors Made Public; It Includes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Business & Tech Larry Ellison Moving Oracle Headquarters Again, Now Heading for Nashville Barely three years after Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison made a big stink about leaving the Bay Area for Austin, he’s planning to move the company headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee.
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison Has Sold Tahoe's Cal Neva Resort to the Proper Hotel People, Who Will Now Renovate It Six years after purchasing the storied Cal Neva Resort & Casino property on Lake Tahoe's north shore, billionaire Larry Ellison is reselling it at a tidy profit to a hotel group who will now, finally, renovate and reopen the place.
Business & Tech Oracle Wins TikTok Sweepstakes, Rewarding Trump Donor Larry Ellison Microsoft and Twitter get left at the altar, as the Redwood City-based enterprise software giant with no real experience in social media wins the prized video app that Trump pressured into being sold.
Business & Tech Oracle Employees Circulate Petition Over Larry Ellison's Planned Golf Fundraiser for Trump Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is hosting a golf fundraiser for President Trump's reelection campaign on Wednesday, and some Oracle employees have started a petition denouncing the event.
SF News Larry Ellison Is Opening a New Luxury Hotel At Lake Tahoe's Cal Neva Resort The historic Cal Neva Resort & Casino in North Lake Tahoe — the site of many party nights with Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland as well as one suicide attempt by Marilyn Monroe — is going to be reborn, though possibly not under that name.
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Billionaire Larry Ellison Is Buying Frank Sinatra's Old Cal Neva Resort By Lake Tahoe It looks like Larry Ellison wants to put his stamp on the Tahoe scene, and it's going to be by way of revamping a kitschy throwback to the Rat Pack era in the
SF News Larry Ellison Buys Giant Palo Alto Hotel In Life-Size Monopoly Move This just in: Billionaire yacht cheater and proud Hawaiian island owner Larry Ellison just paid $71.6 million to buy a huge-ass Palo Alto hotel. The Business Times reports that Ellison is basically
SF News Oracle OpenWorld Set To Make Moscone Center Area A Mess, Again With over 60,000 expected attendees, Oracle OpenWorld is one of San Francisco's biggest conferences. Though the event doesn't start until Sunday, preparations are already underway in the area of Moscone Center, which
SF News Larry Ellison Will Either Save Or Destroy That Hawaiian Island He Bought, It's Still Unclear Just last week we were surmising that maybe the huge project of remaking an entire Hawaiian island in his own image was a precipitating factor in Larry Ellison's decision to step down from
SF News Larry Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO Perhaps because he has his own island in Hawaii and another America's Cup to concentrate on now, Larry Ellison announced today that he's stepping down as CEO to take on a smaller role
SF News San Francisco Likely Eliminated As Potential Host For Next America's Cup Though Larry Ellison and his reps at Oracle Racing might love (and live in) San Francisco, their threats to move the race to San Diego in 2017 were real. Negotiations with potential host
SF News Larry Ellison Threatens To Move America's Cup To San Diego It's getting closer to the moment where Larry Ellison cuts another deal with San Francisco for the next America's Cup. But he knows he won't get the sweetheart deal he got the first
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison's Daughter Once Again Made Some Good Movies This Year It's awards season again, so it's time to check back and see what Larry Ellison's kids have been up to with their millions down in Hollywood. The Oracle founder has two progeny who
SF News S.F. A Glutton for Punishment, Bids For Next America's Cup The ink is barely dry on the $5.5 million lost in taxpayer dollars incurred in the just-concluded America's Cup, but hindsight is 20/40: San Francisco is already entering a new bid
SF News America's Cup Cost S.F. $5.5 Million, Organizers Call It A 'Pay Off' In Tuesday's Chronicle, the paper of record finally got to crunching the numbers on cheating billionaire Larry Ellison's lavish yacht race. And they're not quite the rosy projections the event organizers had promised.
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Press Is Now Glowing, But Larry Won't Commit To Another In S.F. In the aftermath of yesterday's historic and showy win for Oracle Team USA, everyone in the local media is generally doing a mea culpa and saying, "OK, Larry. Good show." Yes, this thing
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Team USA Wins the 2013 America's Cup Larry Ellison got what he wanted, ladies and gentlemen, and Oracle Team USA retained the America's Cup with a wide lead in today's final, deciding race. We think this might mean that we
Arts & Entertainment We're Live From The America's Cup, The Greatest Contest In The History Of Sports [Updates] After months of largely ignored racing on the bay, the America's Cup comes down to one final race. The stakes are high: on the line are one bajillionaire's inflated ego and the honor
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
SF News Yachtenfreude No More? America's Cup May Not Be A Wholesale Disaster Just as we learn that Oracle Racing will be docked 2 races as a penalty for that cheating scandal, the Chron is now saying that the whole America's Cup will actually still be
Arts & Entertainment Yachtenfreude Redux: America's Cup Remains A Joke To Everyone But Larry Two more editorials today, one on Gawker and one from Mother Jones, succeed in eviscerating Larry Ellison and his great big, ultra-expensive, no-good boat race in which there's barely anyone competing at this
SF News Billionaire Yachtsman's Cheating Team Ordered To Return America's Cup Trophies Oracle Team USA, the prized group of boating enthusiasts funded by bajillionaire Larry Ellison, has been accused of cheating in last year's America's Cup World Series races and ordered to return their prized
SF News Another America's Cup Problem: Lawsuit From Disqualified African-American Team Presenting yet another (probably minor) hurdle for Larry Ellison's moment of yachting glory, a lawsuit has bubbled up for the second or third time from a North Carolina-based sailing team that sought to
